| Description |
x, 598 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm + 1 transparency overlay |
| Contents |
Ch. 1. Sensation and Perception -- Ch. 2. Measuring Perception -- Ch. 3. The Visual System -- Ch. 4. Brightness and Color -- Ch. 5. The Auditory System -- Ch. 6. Hearing -- Ch. 7. Taste, Smell, Touch, and Pain -- Ch. 8. Patterns and Edges -- Ch. 9. Space -- Ch. 10. Object and Scene Perception -- Ch. 11. Time -- Ch. 12. Motion -- Ch. 13. Attention -- Ch. 14. Consciousness -- Ch. 15. Development -- Ch. 16. Learning and Experience |
| Summary |
This book provides broad, theoretically balanced coverage, along with late-breaking discoveries and new thinking, on how we see, hear, smell, touch, and make sense of our world. Featuring do-it-yourself demonstrations of actual perceptual phenomena, Coren, Ward, and Enns's interactive approach to sensation and perception enables the reader to use their own senses to understand this fascinating and dynamic field |
| Notes |
Transparency inserted after p. 278 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Subject |
Senses and sensation.
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Perception.
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Sensation.
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Perception.
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| Genre/Form |
Einführung
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| Author |
Enns, James T.
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Ward, Lawrence M.
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| LC no. |
2003049725 |
| ISBN |
0471272558 hardback alkaline paper |
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0471451479 International edition |
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